Ornithological books in the Yale University library, including the library of William Robertson Coe

by S. Dillon Ripley, comps Lynette L. Scribner

$45 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

New Have: Yale University Press, 1961. First edition, tall 8vo, pp. 10 , 338, photographic frontispiece portrait and a few b&w plates; original tan cloth lettered in green on spine; scattered light smudging to covers, the spine ends creased, hinges loosening, and scattered marginal pencil markings throughout; a good, sound copy. Basic bibliographical information on a great many bird books. This copy from the library of San Francisco bookseller John Howell,

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